You are dodging the point, sea-lawyer. For the purposes of PR the United States has been deluged with the "War" on terror and the "War" in Iraq and the "war" in Afghanistan. Military operations other than war don't count?

That is specious, and self-serving, Mister T. We act, talk, operate and spend on a war footing, and you defend torture because "it isn't REALLY war...". What drivel.